Shouts and Whispers: Twenty-One Writers Speak about Their Writing and Their Faith Author Chris Martin Dan Darling does a wonderful

Dan Darling does a wonderful service here to both the biblical text and the reader by mining the details and illuminating the significance of the key figures found in the story of the Savior

but Jenkins finds an intriguing paradox

and disappointments that life brings

and abroad declaring Christ's message of love and grace

Shouts and Whispers: Twenty-One Writers Speak about Their Writing and Their Faith Author Chris Martin Dan Darling does a wonderfulFlannery O'Connor once wrote that "to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures." Some of the twenty one well known writers included in this book prefer to "shout," as O'Connor did, while others offer what Doris Betts calls "whispering hope." Shouts and Whispers contains a fascinating array of reflections on topics surrounding the often perilous intersection of writing and faith. The authors all agree